What are the customs of Fuzhou Lantern Festival?

Fuzhou Lantern Festival has the custom of sending lanterns, rowing dragon boats, two horses crossing the Lantern Festival, enjoying lanterns and eating jiaozi and solve riddles on the lanterns. Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year.

Introduction of Lantern Festival

The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, which is rooted in the folk custom of turning on lights and praying for blessings. According to general data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month was paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty, but the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month really became a national folk festival after the Han and Wei Dynasties.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients said? At night? For what? At night? The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year, so it is called the fifteenth day of the first month? Lantern Festival? According to Taoism? Three yuan? Also called the fifteenth day of the first month? Shangyuan Festival? .

With the changes of society and times, the customs of Lantern Festival have changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China. When the early festivals were formed, the Lantern Festival was only called the fifteenth day of the first month, the first half of the first month or the full moon, and it was called Yuanxiao or Yuanxiao after the Sui Dynasty.